The Titas River ( bn, তিতাস ''Titās''; also Romanized Titash) is a
transboundary river
A transboundary river is a river that crosses at least one political border, either a border within a state or an international boundary. Bangladesh has the highest number of these rivers, including two of the world's largest rivers, the Ganges and ...
that merges into the
Meghna river
The Meghna River ( bn, মেঘনা নদী) is one of the major rivers in Bangladesh, one of the three that form the Ganges Delta, the largest delta on earth, which fans out to the Bay of Bengal. A part of the Surma-Meghna River System, ...
and forms part of the
Surma-Meghna River System
The Surma-Meghna River System is a river complex in the Indian Subcontinent, one of the three that form the Ganges Delta, the largest on earth. It rises in the Manipur Hills of northeast India as the Barak River and flows west becoming the Surma ...
. Titas starts its journey from the Tripura State, with
Haora
Howrah (, , alternatively spelled as Haora) is a city in the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. Howrah is located on the western bank of the Hooghly River opposite its twin city of Kolkata. Administratively it ...
as one of its right tributaries. The river is long and joins Meghna river near
Ashuganj Ashuganj or Ashugonj ( bn, আশুগঞ্জ) is a town in the Brahmanbaria District of Chittagong Division of Bangladesh in the Meghna River delta. Its altitude is 10 meters (36 feet).
The city is known for the Port of Ashuganj and for its pow ...
, Brahmanbaria.
Bangladesh's first
Y-shaped bridge is over this river connecting
Comilla
Comilla (; bn, কুমিল্লা, Kumillā, ), officially spelled Cumilla, is the fifth largest city of Bangladesh and second largest in Chittagong division. It is the administrative centre of the Comilla District. The name Comilla was ...
and
Brahmanbaria
Brahmanbaria ( bn, ব্রাহ্মণবাড়িয়া, Brāhmaṇabāṛiẏā) is a city of Bangladesh and the capital of Brahmanbaria Sadar Upazila as well as Brahmanbaria District. It is the second largest city after Cumilla ...
.
Geography
Titas Gas
The Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company ( bn, তিতাস গ্যাস ''Titas Gas'') is the natural gas distributor in Bangladesh, with an 80% market share. As of 2020, they employed 2,100 staff and served 2.8 million domesti ...
, the biggest natural gas reserve of Bangladesh located in Brahmanbaria, which supplies gas to capital
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...
, is named after this river.
One of the offshoots of the Meghna river is also
named as the Titas which branches out from the
Meghna at Chatlapur and again meets the
Meghna at
Nabinagar Upazila
Nabinagar ( bn, নবীনগর ) is an upazila of Brahmanbaria District in the Division of Chattogram, Bangladesh. Nabinagar Thana was turned into an upazila in 1983.
Geography
Nabinagar is located at . It has 94,871 households and a total ar ...
The river has become narrow and shallow in many places due to siltation.
Depiction in popular culture
''Titash Ekti Nadir Naam'' (''A River Called Titas'') is a 1956 novel by
Bengali
Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to:
*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
** Bengali alphabet, the w ...
writer
Adwaita Mallabarman
Adwaita (meaning "one and only" in Sanskrit) (c. 1750 – 22 March 2006), also spelled Addwaita, was a male Aldabra giant tortoise that lived in the Alipore Zoological Gardens of Kolkata, India. At the time of his death in 2006, Adwaita was bel ...
and adapted into the
1973 film of the same name by
Ritwik Ghatak
Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (; 4 November 19256 February 1976) was a noted Indian film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily remembe ...
. It is a depiction of the lives of a fishing community dependent on the Titas River.
References
{{Rivers in and around Bengal
Rivers of Bangladesh
International rivers of Asia
Rivers of Tripura
Rivers of India
Rivers of Chittagong Division